3 ms·chmod also takes human readable notation as input, as in chmod g+w,o-rx …by Hendrikto 5y agochmod also takes human readable notation as input, as in chmod g+w,o-rx …Aloha 5y agooften I need to match permissions on something already there, so I'm trying to go "uhhh, its, rwxr-xr-x what does that translate to again?"ktm5j 5y agoYou can use `stat -c '%a' filename` to get permissions in octal. I have an alias for this in my .bashrc